To me, it is sillier to think that a Big Bang created the universe, or that the world and all of its order just occurred by accident, than it is to believe in the Adam and Eve story.
Yet most of the world's Christians belong to denominations whose doctrines accept the findings and theories of modern science on the same basis that science does.
Big Bang Theory is illogical because:
1) there can never be nothing (darkness is still something that supposedly preceded the Big Bang).
2) an effect with no cause?
Except your two premises are scientific theories based on observations we have made in this universe. Making claims about causality outside or before our universe existed is outside the scope of those observations.
Secondly, the Big Bang is not a theory about the origin of the universe. It only explains the unfolding of the universe at the earliest point where we can draw conclusions. It doesn't claim that there was nothing before the Big Bang.
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Scientists who ponder the origins of the universe know nothing. They've hopelessly been speculating over time, unable to even get the train on the tracks to start toward their destination. Add they are always forced to "rethink" their theories after so many years, as is the case of Blackholes (cannot explain them with current laws of physics - not in the least).
Yet the computer you are reading this on was designed around two theories that are 100 and 150 years old respectively. One theory that was developed in 1860 or so by a guy who was working by gas lamp still predicts everything we know about electromagnetic fields today. It is used to predict the behavior of those fields in the half billion or so tiny transistors in the CPU of your computer. This theory that was developed 150 years ago is being proven in a half billion locations in your computer at a rate of about a billion times per second.
The other theory predicts the properties of matter at the atomic level and below. It was formulated about 100 years ago and is used to design the transistors in your computer today.
Science has the intellectual honesty to constantly improve its theories when they are challenged by new observations. That is the reason for its astonishing success over the last 400 years or so, where before that we lived in a world lit only by fire. I am not sure why you find that to be an undesireable quality.
The fact is that the universe is and remains completely and utterly mysterious, without a speck of it in infinity being understood by science. Yes, 2 + 2 = 4 on Earth, but in the universe it doesn't. Scientists just cannot accept the inifinite limitations of their own minds.
And yet somehow the Big Bang theory predicts most of the properties of our universe we observe today based on how it models what happened billions of years ago.
My feeling is that there are few Christians who damage the image of Christianity more than people who insist that the acceptance of science and Christian faith are mutually exclusive. It makes all of us Christians look ridiculous.
